# Bank one and bank two

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** explorer, ford\
**Created:** [March 12, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959 "2010-03-12T16:04:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jenndog2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jenndog2002](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jenndog2002)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959/1 "2010-03-12T16:04:01Z")

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what does that mean bank one and bank two???

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**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959/2 "2010-03-12T16:06:04Z")

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Bank 1 is whichever “bank” of cylinders has cylinder 1 on it.

If you have a 4 cylinder engine it only has bank one.

But e.g. for a 6 cylinder, there is one “bank” of cylinders on one side and another “bank” on the other. Bank 1 is whichever side has cylinder 1. Bank 2 is the other side.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959/3 "2010-03-13T00:03:11Z")

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I don’t know about bank two, but Bank One has merged with Chase Bank. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bank-one-and-bank-two/45959/4 "2010-03-13T00:13:25Z")

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“V” engines have 2 “banks” of cylinders… Bank 1 is USUALLY the front facing or the one on the DRIVERS side.

Cig is correct… Bank one is where ever the cylinder labeled as #1 is…